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I loaded up my fort and received a migrant wave within a minute of unpausing the game. I opened the drawbridge to let them in, and then shat bricks when I realised I'd forgotten about the Titan who was now wandering around my dining room like he owned the place. Luckily, it turned out to be a giant tortoise made of water (Blastoise?) and someone kicked it in half without taking any injuries. I really must stop dawdling and get some proper defences up.

Quote from: Newbunkle on November 02, 2011, 03:32:26 am

Bugger it. When I opened the east gate so the caravan could leave, an ambush snuck inside. Who did they happen to kill first? Only the Pharaoh himself! No heirs, and the pyramid is nowhere near finished yet. Well that puts an end to this experiment.

Shouldn't the Pharoh been burrowed inside a solid-gold room having masterful-roasts and legendary booze dropped off by his many, many servants?

You would think so. Actually I ran out of booze and they were going up to the well I had to build next to the river. I normally play with a low population cap, so I'm out of practice when it comes to supplying dozens of slaves dwarves.

Yep. They're a great feature.

Don't forget to have them build the necessary coffins first though.

I named a dwarf after myself and changed his profession to Pharaoh, embarked in a desert, and began forming large teams of miners and masons to build a huge pyramid which will be my tomb. The masons will be buried alive with me when I die, along with enormous quantities of beer (but in a sealed room so the others don't drink it).

I was going to pick a desert-themed name for the fortress, but I was randomly assigned Mirrorwars and liked it. The Egyptian theme continues with a plague of rats. When I checked the topside workshops  there were over a dozen rats crawling over them, along with the remains of nearly three times that number. The cats are proving most useful in keeping them at bay. If my masons build any cat statues they will be positioned overlooking my coffin.

Speaking of statues, they've made quite a few of me. Most involve me holding up or admiring war hammers, but someone made one where I'm cowering in fear of blood gnats. If I didn't need them alive for the construction and burial I'd have them executed!

The Pharaoh has taken a liking to our woodworker. Perhaps if there are any heirs I'll build another pyramid after my own (smaller, obviously).

I started a new fort with the random name of Mistmined. I took no items or skilled dwarves on embark, but we've managed to move most of the workshops and stockpiles underground now.

We haven't seen much hostile wildlife, but there was one werewolf attack. I didn't have any bolts so my marksdwarves wrestled it and beat it to death with their wooden crossbows. It did manage to cripple my expedition leader before it died, but she's dragging herself around now so it's not too bad.

My bowyer and her baby drowned because I forgot a small section of wall next to the pump. The water shoved her off into the pool and she couldn't get out.

Our pet turkey hen froze solid in her nest box. When I channeled down the hillside near the front door there was a 1x1 pond. I guess I built the nest box right on top of the pool tile and it was still collecting water.

Not much else happened. The marksdwarves slaughtered two waves of badgers for practice, and then some mountain gnomes that came down to steal some booze. Oh, and we bought a mating pair of grizzly bears from the elven caravan.

Nothing epic yet, but fingers crossed.

I've just found out that one of my miners has a thing for turkey demons. I'd better keep an eye on him.

The second team arrived at Wintersucks to find a hideous scene of carnage. I was roleplaying it, so I only gave them a handful of supplies (they expected the first team to have set up a base). We had ice wolf issues and some restless ghosts to take care of.

I managed to dig out a small space to store our supplies and then set the dwarves digging down to find cave water. And down. And down. I was beginning to panic. They were dehydrated and still digging (unskilled), but hadn't breached a cavern yet.

A few migrants arrived minutes before team 2 started keeling over and dying. The sad part is, if they had managed to mine another half-dozen squares they would have hit the edge of a cave with a lovely lake nearby.

I've never seen a lake this low before (not that I go digging for them much). It's almost on the level where my previous forts have had a magma sea.